Schools Chancellor Harold Levy's new proposal for cutting hundreds of jobs from the administrative budget represents a bold attempt to manage New York City's school system more like a business and less like a patronage machine. But the muted welcome...

Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy has had an excruciating summer, with a new crisis erupting almost weekly since May and political support that has gone from emphatic to tepid at best. First came a string of highly publicized sexual abuse...

Ninfa Segarra was re-elected to a yearlong term as president of the New York City Board of Education yesterday, giving Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani continuing control of the board in his final months in office. Ms. Segarra is one of the mayor's two...

Borough President Claire Shulman of Queens asked yesterday for the resignation of Terri Thomson, her representative on the Board of Education, saying she was disappointed that Ms. Thomson had refused to support Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's candidate...

Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy will remove nine schools -- among the worst in the city -- from a special district in September now that they have met certain academic goals set by the city and the state, officials said yesterday. It is the...

Last Wednesday morning, Sandra Lerner, a Board of Education member from the Bronx, thought she was about to be elected president of the board. She needed four of the board's seven votes and she thought she had them. She would vote for herself. She...

After Harold O. Levy became the first corporate executive to lead the New York City school system last year, a string of successes seemed to affirm the can-do confidence that he articulated his first day on the job. ''I know the system can...

Because of an editing error, a front-page article on Thursday about the selection of Ninfa Segarra as president of the Board of Education referred incorrectly in some copies to the year that she broke over AIDS instruction with Fernando Ferrer, the...

April 7, 2001, Saturday

Observers of New York City's Board of Education will be puzzling for weeks over the sequence of events that elevated Ninfa Segarra to the presidency of the board. The deciding vote was cast by one of her strongest critics, Irving S. Hamer Jr., for...

April 7, 2001, Saturday

A day after Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's ally on the Board of Education, Ninfa Segarra, was elected the board's president, Mr. Giuliani coyly refused to confirm or deny that any deal had been struck for the decisive vote. The vote for Ms. Segarra...